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Search and information retrieval

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On Overcoming Miscalibrated Conversational Priors in LLM-based Chatbots

Result Diversification in Search and Recommendation: A Survey

ICRA 2024 conference recap blog - RASCAL library

RASCAL: Novel robotics for scalable and highly available automated storage and retrieval

Interpretable User Satisfaction Estimation for Conversational Systems with Large Language Models

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Microsoft at WSDM 2021

March 8, 2021 – March 12, 2021 | Virtual

Microsoft is proud to be a part of the 14th ACM Web Search and Data Mining Conference (WSDM 2021). Stop by our virtual booth to learn more about our research and open opportunities at Microsoft.

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Population-Scale Study of Human Needs During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Analysis and Implications

Jina Suh, Eric Horvitz, Ryen W. White, Tim Althoff

WSDM | March 2021

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Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval

Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas, David Elsweiler, Hideo Joho, Noriko Kando, Catherine Smith

March 2021

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Significant Improvements over the State of the Art? A Case Study of the MS MARCO Document Ranking Leaderboard

Jimmy Lin, Daniel Campos, Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra, Emine Yilmaz

Proceedings of the 44th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research & development in information retrieval | March 2021

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Social competence in conversational retrieval

Paul Thomas, Mary Czerwinski, Daniel McDuff, Nick Craswell

Future Conversations | March 2021

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MosAIc: Finding Artistic Connections across Culture with Conditional Image Retrieval

Mark Hamilton, Stephanie Fu, Mindren Lu, Johnny Bui, Darius Bopp, Zhenbang Chen, Felix Tran, Margaret Wang, Marina Rogers, Lei Zhang, Chris Hoder, William T. Freeman

NeurIPS 2020 Competition and Demonstration Track | February 2021

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Microsoft Vision Model ResNet-50: Pretrained vision model built with web-scale data

February 25, 2021 | Junwon Park, Zygmunt Lenyk

Pretrained computer vision models, combined with transfer learning, can dramatically bring down the cost and time it takes to build a model that performs a vision task, such as image classification, object detection, and image…

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Training Large-Scale News Recommenders with Pretrained Language Models in the Loop

Shitao Xiao, Zheng Liu, Yingxia Shao, Tao Di, Xing Xie

KDD 2022 | February 2021

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Overview of the TREC 2020 deep learning track

Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra, Emine Yilmaz, Daniel Campos

Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) | February 2021

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Microsoft Research Conversations in STEM: Research in STEM as a Career

February 11, 2021 | Jaime Teevan, Mar Gonzalez Franco, Haiyan Zhang, Stefany Cruz

Research in STEM as a Career Are you curious about career options after academia? Wondering what you might want to do post-postdoc? Hoping to use your skills and knowledge to make a difference in the…

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